We want him to use that in a very efficient way.
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“I have two world-class goalkeepers”, Wenger said. Many players it took some time to get into the team, it happens.
The Arsenal’s manager’s decision to play his reserve goalkeeper in the club’s toughest Champions League group stage assignment drew anxious glances from supporters and mockery across the wider public, yet even Ospina’s subsequent brilliance didn’t bring flattery for Wenger.
Arsenal started the second half on the front foot, but Aurier was running riot down the PSG right and another great cross was turned over by Blaise Matuidi.
However, Wenger-who has previously been reported as being interested in signing Cavani, per Uche Amako of the Express-praised the forward’s performance, per Arsenal’s official website: “I think Cavani was good tonight if I’m honest”.
Ospina received criticism for his Champions League performances last season, when he made crucial errors against both Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiakos, but deserves credit for this response.
Arsenal will host Basel on September 28 in their next Group A Champions League game. A year ago he made a mistake when I started him in the Champions League.
“We can always change our minds. Either you have a secondary choice who never plays, and when the first choice gets injured you have a problem, or you try to get two world-class goalkeepers like we have, but then you have to give them games as well in big competitions”.
“But even in the first half when we put together a few passes we felt we could be risky”.
Iwobi missed a late chance to win it for the North London outfit with the game coming to a weird conclusion and finished with 10 men on each side after Olivier Giroud and Marco Verrati were sent off for an off the ball altercation.
From a PSG perspective, their inability to see out the victory was less to do with Ospina than with Cavani’s inability to convert several chances to add to his opener. We could have won with three to four goals.
It’s no coincidence that Arsenal’s equalizer came after Xhaka’s introduction, and it may just be time for Coquelin to fully accept his role as squad rotation and “hey Xhaka needs a break after all these important games we’ve used him in” guy.
The Nigerian sensation has returned from injury after limping off in a Premier League against Liverpool at the Emirates and made a return in Arsenal’s 2-1 win away to Southampton at Saint Marys.
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But it was still the Ligue 1 champions creating the majority of the chances.
